The Strain - (Strain Trilogy) by Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan (Paperback)
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Highlights
- From the Golden Globe winning director of The Shape of Water"A high-tech vampire epic....Terrifying.
- Author(s): Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan
- 432 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Horror
- Series Name: Strain Trilogy
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About the Book
A high-tech vampire epic....Terrifying. San Francisco Chronicle
Part The Andromeda Strain, part Night of the Living Dead. Salon.com
Chuck Hogan is known for his taut thrillers, Guillermo del Toro for his surreal horror films The Strain brings out the best of each. Minneapolis Star Tribune
An epic battle for survival begins between man and vampire in The Strain the first book in a heart-stopping trilogy from one of Hollywood s most inventive storytellers and a critically acclaimed thriller writer. Guillermo del Toro, the genius director of the Academy Award-winning Pan s Labyrinth and Hellboy, and Hammett Award-winning author Chuck Hogan have joined forces to boldly reinvent the vampire novel. Brilliant, blood-chilling, and unputdownable, The Strain is a nightmare of the first order."
Book Synopsis
From the Golden Globe winning director of The Shape of Water
"A high-tech vampire epic....Terrifying."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Part The Andromeda Strain, part Night of the Living Dead."
--Salon.com
An epic battle for survival begins between man and vampire in The Strain--the first book in a heart-stopping trilogy from one of Hollywood's most inventive storytellers and a critically acclaimed thriller writer. Guillermo del Toro, the genius director of the Academy Award-winning Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy, and Hammett Award-winning author Chuck Hogan have joined forces to boldly reinvent the vampire novel. Brilliant, blood-chilling, and unputdownable, The Strain is a nightmare of the first order.
From the Back Cover
At New York's JFK Airport, an arriving Boeing 777 taxiing along a runway suddenly stops dead. All the shades have been drawn, all communication channels have mysteriously gone quiet. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of a CDC rapid-response team investigating biological threats, boards the darkened plane---and what he finds makes his blood run cold.
A terrifying contagion has come to the unsuspecting city, an unstoppable plague that will spread like all-consuming wildfire---lethal, merciless, hungry . . . vampiric. And in a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, an aged Holocaust survivor knows that the war he has been dreading his entire life is finally here.
In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months . . . the world.
Review Quotes
"[One of] the most original and powerful filmmakers working today." -- The Hollywood Reporter
"His distinctive creatures and otherwordly parables use the realms of fantasy to explore fundamental human issues such as love, alienation, weakness and, of course, fear... [He is] a master of monsters." -- USA Today
"A cinematic magician who has never lost his childlike sense of wonder." -- Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh in Associated Press
"[An] amazing writer and director. . . . Pan's Labyrinth places Mr. del Toro in the first rank of world filmmakers." -- New York Times
"He elevated gothic horror to art. . . . Bilingual, bicultural, multigenre, he has a voice that feels both fresh and ancient." -- Entertainment Weekly